Require the Secretary of State, in consultation with USAID, to submit an implementation plan for CBSI within 180 days of enactment.
Require the Secretary of State, in consultation with USAID, to submit an implementation plan for the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) within 180 days of enactment.
Occurrences
Evidence
Latest Action: Senate - 03/03/2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. This bill has the status Introduced. The bill text includes an implementation plan section requiring the Secretary of State, in coordination with USAID, to submit an implementation plan not later than 180 days after enactment.
All Actions shows a single action on 03/03/2025: 'Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.' No further committee or floor action is listed.
The bill text requires the Secretary of State, in coordination with USAID, to submit an implementation plan within 180 days after enactment. Congress.gov shows the bill was only read twice and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 2025-03-03, with no enactment.
Congress.gov shows a later House vehicle that includes a strategy and implementation-plan mandate for Caribbean security advanced to 'Ordered to be Reported (Amended)' on 2025-09-18, but it remained a bill and was not enacted.
Assessments
Kaine introduced the CBSI authorization bill containing the exact 180-day implementation-plan mandate, but the evidence shows it remained only introduced and referred in committee with no enactment. Because the required plan has not been made mandatory by law, the promise was not delivered; this is a serious legislative attempt that failed.
The promised outcome was to require a CBSI implementation plan within 180 days of enactment. The evidence shows Kaine introduced or materially advanced S.820 in 2025 with the relevant requirement, but the bill was only read twice and referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with no enactment or other completed federal mandate. Because there was a serious legislative attempt but the promised requirement has not become law or otherwise been delivered, this is best scored as never with an effort badge.